Ideas for World Trade Center site take shape

ByCompiled from wire servicesJuly 17, 2002

NEW YORK
— New Yorkers got their first glimpse Tuesday of what the redeveloped site of the World Trade Center may look like. Six concepts, all including substantial memorials, office buildings, and cultural space, were displayed at Federal Hall on Wall Street.

"Each plan begins with a memorial acknowledging that as we rebuild, we must remember," says John Whitehead, chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. New Yorkers will be asked to comment on the designs at a massive town meeting Saturday.

As New Yorkers struggle to recover emotionally from the towers' collapse Sept. 11, which killed nearly 3,000, the city is also suffering an economic downturn. The six proposed plans are meant to ameliorate both.